Improvement in saddles and harness



- UNITED STATES PATENT QEEicE.

ACHILLE ANGELINI, OF GENOA, ITALY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SADDLES AND HARNESS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,932, dated April 10,1866.

To all lwhom it may concern Be it known that I, ACHILLE ANGELINI,major-general and aid-de-camp to his majesty the king of Italy, ofGenoa, in the Kingdom of Italy, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in the Manufacture of Saddles, Harness, and other likearticles; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

The object of my invention is to use with saddles, harness, and collarselastic cushions or pads of various forms, hereinafter explained, inplace of the blankets, saddle-cloths, stufn g, and pads ordinarilyemployed.

By using these new cushions the changs and sores causedby the contact ofthe saddle, collar, 8vo., with the animal are avoided, and the parts ofthe body to which they are applied maintain a certain degree offreshness and freedom from heat. p

To enable those skilled in the art to understand and use my invention, Iwill now proceed to describe it.

Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 represent the differentforms of cushions whichI prefer to employ.

Fig. 1 represents a sheet or plate of vulcanized caoutchouc not morethan twenty-live millimeters thick, (a little less than an inch,)pierced in every direction by little holes, through which aircirculates, and forming a sponge-like or porous pad or cushion.

Fig. 2 represents another form of a cushion, consisting of little knobsor spheres placed near each other on a sheet of caoutchouc, the thetotal thickness of the cushion thus formed being about threecentimeters, (a little over an inch.) Each little knob or sphere ispierced with holes like those in the porous cushion in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 represents a cushion composed of hollow tubes,which may be formedseparately or cemented together, placed one by the side of the other.The interior diameter of these tubes should be abouteighteenmillimeters, or ive-sevenths of an inch. When these tubes are. molded orformed separately they can be fastened to a band of fustian, a,'Fig. 6;but when they a-re formed in one piece they may be applied to a band offelt, Fig. 7.

In Fig. 4 the cushion is formed of dice made of caoutchouc pierced by acertain number of holes. In the drawings, these holes are iive innumber, and the thickness of the dice is the same as that ofthe hollowtubes-z'. c., eighteen millimeters.

Lastly,.Fig. 5 represents a cushion formed of double tubes, made in onepiece or separately, and then attached to a band ot' leather orcaoutchouc. The cushions made of single or double tubes should be usedpreferably with ridingand pack saddles, while the cushions representedin Fig. 1, 2, and 3 may be used in connection with collars and breastpieces. This however is at the option ofthe manufacturer, as any form ofthe cushion can be used with either saddles or harness of any kind.

Fig. S represents a Hungarianmilitary saddle with tubular cushions. Fig.9 shows the manner in which the said cushions are attached to apack-saddle for milles.

Fig. 10 represents a saddle provided with the cushion a, constructed asabove described, and the cushion b, to which is attached thedistributing-tube c. This tube is perpendicular to the tubes of whichthe cushion is composed, and communicates with each one ot' them. Itsends, which are open, extend beyond and outside of each end of thesaddle, in order that the air can circulate freely.

An exterior view ot' the saddle is given in Fig. 11.

Figs. 12, 13, 14, and 15 represent cushions for draft-harness. Thesecushions can be employed to great advantage either with collars, Fig.13, or as false collars, Fig. 15, with breast-straps, Fig. 12, or asfalse breaststraps, Fig. 14.

When cushions thus formed and constructed are used with the ordinarysaddle they render unnecessary the use of the blankets and saddleclothswhich are commonly employed. The elastic cushions alone prevent thesaddle from chaiing and injuring the horses back, and at the same timekeep that portion of the body of the animal with which they are incontact comparatively cool and free from heat, and the same advantagesaccrue from their use in draft-harness.

These cushions or pads should not be confounded with those which aremade in the shape of a sack and lled with compressed air. The latter aremade resistant by the air which is shut up within them, while theresistant qualities of cushions constructed in accordance with myinvention result from the peculiar form given the material used in theirconstruct'on, as represented in the drawings, the air which circulatesthrough them serving only to keep them cool, and consequently to preventthe heating ot' those parts of the body ot the animal to which they areapplied.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. The employment, in the manufacture of cushions or pads forriding-saddles, pack-saddles, and harness of all kinds, of elasticlsubstances, such as vulcanized gutta-percha or caoutchouc, when of theform and shape substan tially as set forth.

ACHILLE ANGELINI.

l/Vtnesses NEVGA FETICE, OALAJANNI GUIsEPPE.

